brittle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts. uncountable,usually
    — As a child, my favorite candy was peanut brittle.
  2. Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc. broadly,uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To become brittle. intransitive
    — The project is based on a similar project, the Class project, which was started by the University of Cornell several years ago under the leadership of Stuart Lynn to preserve brittling old books.
  2. To gut. obsolete,transitive
    — Not being versed in the terms of English venery, he asked Abbot Ulfketyl what brittling of a deer might mean; and being informed that it was that operation on the carcass of a stag which his countrymen called eventrer, and Highland gillies now “gralloching”[.]
形容词 adj.
  1. Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
    — Near-synonym: crackly
  2. Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
    — Shortbread is my favorite cold pastry, yet being so brittle it crumbles easily, and a lot goes to waste.
  3. Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
  4. Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
    — What a brittle person! A little misunderstanding and he's an emotional wreck.
  5. Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
  6. Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level. informal,proscribed

词形变化

brittler comparative more brittle comparative brittlest superlative most brittle superlative brittles plural brittles present,singular,third-person brittling participle,present brittled participle,past brittled past

词汇关系

衍生词
brittility brittle bone disease brittlebush brittle cinder brittle fracture brittlegill brittle hair syndrome brittlely brittleness brittle star brittlestem brittly embrittle nonbrittle quasibrittle Sabinas brittle hair syndrome unbrittle work-brittle peanut brittle
相关词
embrittlement

词源

词源 1
From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
词源 2
From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
词源 3
From Middle English britel, brutel, brotel (“brittle”), from Old English *brytel, *bryttol (“brittle, fragile”, literally “prone to or tending to break”); equivalent to brit + -le.
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